Quotes about Father
Indeed, your servant guaranteed the boy’s safety to my father, saying, ‘If I do not return him to you, I will bear the guilt before you, my father, all my life.’
— Genesis 44:32
For how can I go back to my father without the boy? I could not bear to see the misery that would overwhelm him.”
— Genesis 44:34
Joseph said to his brothers, “I am Joseph! Is my father still alive?” But they were unable to answer him, because they were terrified in his presence.
— Genesis 45:3
Tell my father about all my splendor in Egypt and everything you have seen. And bring my father down here quickly.”
— Genesis 45:13
Then bring your father and your families and return to me. I will give you the best of the land of Egypt, and you shall eat from the fat of the land.’
— Genesis 45:18
You are also directed to tell them: ‘Take wagons from the land of Egypt for your young children and your wives, and bring your father and come back.
— Genesis 45:19
And he sent to his father the following: ten donkeys loaded with the best of Egypt, and ten female donkeys loaded with grain and bread and provisions for his father’s journey.
— Genesis 45:23
So the brothers went up out of Egypt and came to their father Jacob in the land of Canaan.
— Genesis 45:25
So Israel set out with all that he had, and when he came to Beersheba, he offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.
— Genesis 46:1
“I am God,” He said, “the God of your father. Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for I will make you into a great nation there.
— Genesis 46:3
Joseph said to his brothers and to his father’s household, “I will go up and inform Pharaoh: ‘My brothers and my father’s household from the land of Canaan have come to me.
— Genesis 46:31
Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Now that your father and brothers have come to you,
— Genesis 47:5